Blog: June 22-June 28, 2009
June 22, 2009. Still waiting for Hunt Auctions to pull the 2001 Pujols jersey and either pull or edit the description for the 1948 Yochim shirt (see the 6/17 and 6/18 entries)... The Pujols BP jersey I mentioned on 6/19 sold for more than $2,000... Yadi is back to Sam Bat tonight.
June 23, 2009. I've added a couple links to the left. One is to Game Used Universe, a great site full of information for memorabilia collectors. I post there often. The other link will take you to my current eBay auctions. I have 16 bats listed at the moment -- bid early and bid often... I've also added a Google search bar that is supposed to search this site, but it doesn't seem to work well. For example, a query for "Pujols" returned six hits. I'll try to figure out what's wrong.
June 24, 2009. Interesting note from the Post-Dispatch, courtesy of Derrick Goold: "La Russa received a memento from his 2,500th career victory, which came Sunday in Kansas City. Albert Pujols autographed his game-used bat with gold pen and wrote out his stats from the day -- six RBIs, two homers. But the bat was not the one he used to hit either of the homers; it was the one that cracked on a single. 'It's got some character,' La Russa said. 'It will go up at ARF (offices), next to Bruce Springsteen's guitar.'"
June 25, 2009. The 2001 Pujols jersey offered in Hunt Auction's upcoming ASG auction has been withdrawn. Kudos to Hunt for making the call on that one. Bidding already had passed $2,100... Two of the three pink bats used by Cardinals on Mother's Day are now at auction on MLB.com. Khalil Green's Old Hickory, used for two ABs, is offered, as is the bat Rasmus used in his first four ABs. Based on the condition, it's clear now why he used a black bat for his last plate appearance. Schumaker's X-Bat is not part of this auction.
June 26, 2009. I was contacted by Hunt regarding the 2001 Pujols jersey. Seems it wasn't rejected on its own merits; it was pulled because they checked with Cardinals Care and the LOA turned out to be bogus.
June 27, 2009. I noticed Schumaker was using a different bat today. He almost always uses an X-Bat, but today's bat had a Rawlings logo... Today was "Jersey off the Back" day at Busch, which means somebody out there has a new Pujols jersey and could have paid as little as $1. Anybody get lucky?... Josh Kinney got an AB today and used an unfinished ash LS... I have several items listed for sale on the Game Used Universe site. If you want something, contact me using the subject line "DISCOUNT" and I'll give you 15% off listed prices and pay your shipping.
June 28, 2009. The Cardinals have shipped Chris Perez off to Cleveland in exchange for Mark DeRosa. Mark is wearing #7, the number Joe Mather wore during most of spring training. Joe's season-ending wrist surgery made #7 available for DeRosa, who has worn that digit with his last three teams (the Indians, Cubs and Rangers) and also as a rookie with the Braves. How convenient... DeRosa's jersey is unusual in that the "e" in DeRosa is subscript (50% as high as the other letters and positioned on the baseline). Players with similar names have other treatments. For example, all of the letters in Jason LaRue's surname are the same height and there's a space between the "A" and the "R" (Tony LaRussa gets the same treatment). Kyle McClellan, on the other hand, has a superscript "c" for his second letter (50% as high and positioned even with the top of the other letters). Consistency, anyone?... DeRosa was using an all-black LS M9 bat, which is strange because maple bats are no longer allowed to be all black. I couldn't tell if he'd covered a bare handle in black tape, or if the bat truly was all black. Hope to get a better look next time out.
